State v. Dana’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2006
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 25 U.S.C. § 1321 · 25 U.S.C. § 177 · 25 U.S.C. § 2 · 44 U.S.C. § 1507
Relies on Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York · United States v. Kagama · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Fletcher v. Peck · Donnelly v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any Indian who commits against the person or property of another Indian or other person any of the following offenses, namely, murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, carnal knowledge of any female, not his wife, who has not attained the age of sixteen years, assault with intent to commit rape, incest, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, arson, burglary, robbery, and larceny within the Indian country, shall be subject to the same laws and penalties as all other persons committing any of the above offenses, within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.